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 Spanish 2A Course Objectives: Interpersonal Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 2A student progress in interpersonal language. Use this checklist as your "Progress Card" to track your development in Spanish. As you learn to do each item, note your confidence level in performing each task. You will want to practice and review these objectives repeatedly on your own, with your native-speaking conversation partner, and with your instructor.

Be sure to peruse the interpretive and presentational objectives for the course as well.

Click here for a printable version of the entire Progress Card, with interpersonal, intrepretive and presentational objectives.

Language Learning Objectives:
Click on an objective for a list of key phrases to learn

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(text, audio and video samples)

 

Your confidence level:
1 (low) to
5 (high)

 

I can...

address people appropriately according to their age and how well I know them

     

make polite comments to people (e.g., "Thank you so much for your help," or "I truly appreciate your generosity.")

     

 

initiate conversations with strangers and acquaintances

     

 

appropriately introduce new topics in a conversation

     

 

interact with strangers and acquaintances on the telephone:

talking on the telephone

inquiring over the phone about an apartment for rent

 


video and text: interact with strangers and acquaintences on the telephone (Ecuador)

 

ask for favors

     

 

express emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger or surprise

260-69, 261 video: emotions and body weight (España)  

 

give, accept, or reject apologies

     

offer assistance

     

 

complain

266-269    

 

suggest or give advice

324-27, 335, 418-19, 472

video: health advice (España)

video: nutrition (España)

 

 

express opinions

159, 269, 295 video and text: "El Progreso" (song) by Roberto Carlos  

 

express (lack of) agreement

     

 

express future plans

454-56, 474    

 

share doubts

457-60, 471    

 

clarify and restate information

442    

 

make comparisons

141-42, 159, 176-77, 183, 185    

 

search for an apartment:

describe the type of apartment I'd like

     

 

describe the type of roommate I’d like

     

 

inquire about the rent and terms of payment

 

   

 

purchase airline tickets:

inquire about fares

411-13, 427    

inquire about destinations

411-13, 427    

 

ask for a one-way or a round trip ticket

411-13, 427